Ketogenic Diet
Sleep disorders are common in drug-resistant children with epilepsy and their mothers. Ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) may have positive effects on sleep quality.
Self-stigma is the internalization of negative public attitudes and is often experienced by patients with epilepsy (PWE). Greater self-stigma is associated with lower self-esteem and hinders therapeutic behavior.
There is evidence that developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) can impact health-related quality of life (HRQL) and emotional wellbeing and can limit usual activities for the primary caregiver and their wider family.
This month’s research news features discoveries by three researchers in the CURE Epilepsy community and their teams.
The epilepsy phenotype in children with 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome is defined by childhood onset absence seizures, and may have atypical features such as, early onset absences, persistence into adolescence, status epilepticus, intellectual disability and treatment resistance.
In SA most of the seizure-causing brain infections in adults are caused by pig tapeworm larvae, Taenia solium, which is acquired by either eating undercooked pork or living near pigs such as on farms or in rural areas.
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Pediatric Epilepsy
Selecting children with epileptic spasms for surgery based on the location and extent of lesions detected on brain MRI, nearby eloquent regions and preexisting deficits yields seizure-free results comparable to a strategy that includes intracranial monitoring.
Ketogenic Diet, Pediatric Epilepsy
Ketogenic diet is an effective treatment which has the potential to achieve a significant seizure reduction in drug-resistant epilepsy. The mechanism behind this effect is unclear, but one hypothesis is that the mechanism is anti-inflammatory.
